NEWPORT NEWS — For the next few games, at least, Woodside will be missing a vital cog in its lineup. So it's up to everyone else, one through nine, to step it up.

Right fielder Nick Arendas did his part and more Tuesday afternoon with a 4-for-4 game, which included a walk-off single to give the Wolverines a 5-4 win over Kecoughtan. The Wolverines (17-1, 7-1) maintained their one-game lead in the Monitor-Merrimac standings and bounced back from Friday's loss at Bethel.

"I knew the team was counting on me and I'm a senior," said Arendas, who drove in two runs. "The coaches are always preaching about seniors (taking) us as far as we go, and I just tried to get a stick on the ball.

"It found a hole. It was good to finally be able to come around and help the team."

Arendas' hit came just after Kecoughtan (11-8, 3-5) nearly escaped with a double-play grounder. However, Seth Woodard was ruled safe at first base, which kept the inning alive.

Roman Degnan followed with an infield single, and Andreas bounced a single up the middle just out of the reach of a diving Kecoughtan shortstop Liam Bellows to score Woodard from third..

"Holy cow," Woodside coach Kevin Hare said. "This is a kid who two years ago I wasn't sure I would be able to find a spot for. But he's become a solid right fielder and we've worked with him at the plate. He just put a topspin on the ground ball and it got through."

Arendas' game-winner gave Woodside its first lead of the day. The Wolverines trailed 2-0 after RBI hits by Robbie Edwards and Perry Barber Jr.

Woodside tied it in the fourth on Brandon Sadler's two-run single to right. Kecoughtan went up 3-2 when Thomas Phillips scored on a wild pitch, but the Wolverines tied it again on Mason Adamson's RBI single.

The Wolverines took a 4-3 lead when Nate Matheson scored on a wild pitch in the top of the sixth, but Woodside tied it in the bottom half on an RBI single by Arendas.

Matheson gave up 14 hits but got out of jams with three double plays — the first two of which he started. He struck out nine and walked one.

"Nate Matheson is a competitor," Hare said. "There's no other way to look at it."

Woodside's Josh Welcher was just as good. He gave up five hits, two coming in the first inning. Two of the four runs he allowed were on wild pitches.

"I told him when he got in trouble that this was his senior day and I wasn't going to take him out," Hare said. "Josh came through for us."

It was a bounce-back win for Woodside, which lost 3-2 Friday to Bethel. Not only that, the Wolverines lost catcher Chris Henley to a concussion in that game.

The Wolverines' lead in the M&M standings is one game with two remaining (Grassfield Thursday at Harbor Park and at Oscar Smith Tuesday).